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Geez, schneeble got me going this morning. I generally don't like quotes, but I'm not particularly articulate enough to avoid having to use them.
I've been on an obsessive streak about correcting people that think we were founded as a democracy. We weren't, we are suppossedly a republic... big difference. If someone disagrees with me then I'd like them to explain Article IV section 4 of the Constitution to me. Anways, here's the quote that I see a lot of that I'd like to share today:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
That is courtesy of Alexander Tyler.
I've been on an obsessive streak about correcting people that think we were founded as a democracy. We weren't, we are suppossedly a republic... big difference. If someone disagrees with me then I'd like them to explain Article IV section 4 of the Constitution to me. Anways, here's the quote that I see a lot of that I'd like to share today:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
That is courtesy of Alexander Tyler.